"Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society"
"Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians."
"At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other. . "
"But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money. "
"I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam."
"If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience. "
"One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy."
"In Pakistan politics is hereditary"
"I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature"
"Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians"